Improvement in butter-tubs



JAMES GILBERDS.

improvement in Buffer Tubsf Patented D86- 26, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES 'GILBERDS, OF JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-TUBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,166, dated December26, 1871.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Package for Butter, &c., invented by JAMES (humans, of Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York.

My invention consists of a package for butter and other articles, of which the interior is made of oak or other hard and close-grained wood, closely fitted together, and the exterior of a covering of thin galvanized iron or other metal or alloy of metals that will not corrode; the said package being of any approved form, and the metal part of the cover fitting or lapping over that of the sides so that they can be soldered together readily to make an air-tight packing for shipping to foreign countries.

Figure l is asectional elevation of myimproved package, and Figure 2 is a top viewwith the cover removed.

In this example I have represented a square wood box, A, with flaring sides and a correspondin gl y-shaped exterior covering of galvanized iron, B, and a wood cover, (3, overlaid with a sheet of iron, D; butthe Woodpart may be made round, bein g formed of staves, and having a head fitted in one end like a barrel-head. The wood cover is grooved in the lower side and outer edge to sit down on the top of the sides of the box, and a flange, E, is turned down on the edge of the iron Witnesses I y L. M. ROBERTSON, 0. 000 

